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Jungle By-Ways in India
Edward Percy Stebbing
1911
John Lane The Bodley Head : London
9" by 6.5"
xxvii [3], 3-306, 1pp
SUMMARY
An illustrated account of a prominent English zoologist's observations from his time in India under British Colonial rule.
Illustrated,Publishers' Original Binding
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs 1.5 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
The second edition of this work, published in the same year as the first.
The work of Edward Percy Stebbing, a pioneering English forester and forest entomologist in India, who was among the first to warn of desertification and desiccation, and wrote on 'the encroaching Sahara'. From 1900 to 1910 he worked as Forest Entomologist and Zoologist for the Indian Forest Service.
Illustrated throughout with full plate and vignette illustrations and contemporary photographs, many of which are from the author himself, and often depicting the animals encountered by the Stebbing in India.
With the former owner's stamp of Brian Ashley, Bristol, to the front free endpaper.
CONDITION
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail. Former owner's stamp to front free end paper. Internally, firmly bound. Generally bright and clean, with a few patches of spotting throughout. Several pages uncut to fore edge.
Overall Condition: Very Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
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Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
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often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
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Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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